Excoriated acne of young females

BROCQ, 1 in 1898, described this condition minutely, named it, and outlined his treatment. His masterly description has not been improved to this day. In 1915, Adamson 2 drew attention in the English literature to Brocq's work and placed this disease in a classification. In Volume 1 of theArchives of Dermatology and Syphilology, two papers are devoted to "Neurotic Excoriations." In one, Pusey and Senear 3 discuss Adamson's paper very completely and mention the fact that scant attention has been paid to this subject in the American literature. In the paper by MacKee, 4 Cases 5 and 6 which he presents were probably excoriated acne and not neurotic excoriations, judging from his description of the disease and the excellent response to therapy. Following these papers, there is a paucity of reports on this disease. Excoriated acne is described in most of the standard dermatological textbooks published in England